The Brendan voyage

Having survived encounters with killer whales, Atlantic gales and the ice floes of Greenland and Labrador, the small boat is within reach of its destination.For copyright reasons this reading is not available as a podcast.

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The illuminated manuscripts that recount the epic voyage of the sixth century saint Brendan from Ireland west across the seas to an unknown land were long considered apocryphal. But Tim Severin was fascinated by the story they told, and after painstaking research managed to build a replica of a sixth century curragh just as the monks of medieval Ireland would have sailed, and set off to cross the Atlantic.